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Democrats face a conundrum in some midterm campaigns as the party tries to decide whether liberals, moderates or some combination are best to take on Republicans in GOP territory where President Donald Trump was victorious in 2016

Democrats face a conundrum in some midterm campaigns as the party tries to decide whether liberals, moderates or some combination are best to take on Republicans in GOP territory where President Donald Trump was victorious in 2016

Josh Holmes, political strategist and former Sen. Mitch McConnell aide, said he was relieved Roy Moore lost in Tuesday’s close U.S. Senate race in Alabama. He spoke to ABC News’ John Karl and Rick Klein about what the election could mean for the GOP on the Powerhouse Politics podcast Wednesday.

Sen. Jeff Sessions , R-Ala., one of Donald Trump ’s most enthusiastic supporters in Congress, is drawing fire for saying late Sunday that he did not believe Donald Trump’s comments about women amounted to sexual assault. At least one writer, Bret Stephens, an editor for the editorial page of the

NOTABLES --SANDERS HEADS TO THE WHITE HOUSE: President Obama will play peacemaker-in-chief today hosting Bernie Sanders at the White House later this morning, ABC’s SHUSHANNAH WALSHE notes. The White House has said Sanders' departure from the race should be on his terms, but it's almost certain it

NOTABLES --FIGHT NIGHT IN COLORADO: The third GOP presidential debate, hosted by CNBC, takes place in Boulder, Colorado, tonight, ABC’s VERONICA STRACQUALURSI notes. This time, CNBC's Carly Quintanilla, Becky Quick and John Harwood will be grilling the GOP candidates on jobs, taxes, the deficit and

Two Republican candidates for president, Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul , said this morning they would return or donate thousands of dollars possibly linked to the head of the Council of Conservative Citizens, which the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a white supremacist group. The group was cited

By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) NOTABLES TIME FOR A CZAR? President Obama said last night that he is open to appointing what would essentially be an Ebola czar to deal with the ongoing situation with the deadly disease in the U.S. “It may be appropriate for...